"It is such a beautiful day I had to write you a letterFrom the tower, and to show I'm not mad:...I only slipped on the cake of soap of the airAnd drowned in the bathtub of the world...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

"End of tomorrow.Don't try to start the car or look deeper...Into the eternal wimpling of the sky: lusterOn luster, transparency floated onto the topmost layerUntil the whole thing overflows like a silverWedding cake or Christmas tree, in a cascade of tears."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A rich man was never insulted in his life: but this man must be stung. A rich man was never in danger from cold, or hunger, or war..., or ruffians,--and you can see why he was not, from the moderation of his ideas. 'Tis a fatal disadvantage to be cockered, and to eat too much cake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for ...a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »